This statement is intended to encourage efficient utilization of the web server's two main client resources. They are the file-systems (unix-speak) known as:

The amount of space on the server is finite at any given point in time. Of course, we can expand that space by adding new physical devices (drives), but those expansions need to be planned depending on predicted growth. The uninterrupted availability of the server depends on (among other things) our ability to predict the growth of used space. There are some things that you, the consumers of these resources, can do to preserve the viability of YUL's WWW presence.

1. Web pages, whenever possible, should be kept in an appropriate subdirectory of /usr/web. These are what can be considered our *production* level objects. This is where the world comes when they visit the YUL Web site. As a developer of pages, you may have works-in-progress in your /usr/web subdirectory. Do you regularly purge these once they reach *production* level status? You should. They occupy valuable YUL Web site real estate. Are there images being stored here that are not integral to a YUL Web site? Get rid of them. Images, of all types, occupy much more room than the HTML pages which reference them.

2. The /home file-system is where you park (normally) when you log on to the server as a unix user, rather than as a WWW client. While there are some instances of *production* level objects residing under this path, this is usually NOT the case. Your own home page may be residing here, along with works-in-progress. Here, again, if you have migrated a work-in-progress into *production*, please remove any duplicates from the server.

3. Are you using any space on the server as a backup or archive for files from your workstation ? This would be a totally inappropriate and misguided use of this valuable resource. Also, keeping *backups* of /usr/web/. . . files in your /home/. . . directory is counterproductive. Both of those file-systems are on the same physical device, and if the device becomes unavailable neither file-system will accessible. Besides, the Systems Office makes a daily backup of BOTH of these file-systems. In summary, please strive to eliminate any redundant files from any space that you cultivate on the web server. Try to avoid populating /home/. . . with pages that should be in /usr/web/. . . . Under no circumstances should you use the web server as a backup device.